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Notorious hacker reveals top DNC donor info, political strategy

Guccifer 2.0 —the hacker who claimed credit for the recent DNC breach — has shared a new batch of documents which reveal personal information about top Democratic party donors, including executives atOracle and J. Crew, plus Hollywood heavy-hitters including Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and David Geffen, reported The Hill.

The documents include thousands of major donor names, physical addresses, phone numbers and email addresses, and contain memos about political strategies, the upcoming Democratic National Convention and fundraising tactics, according to The Hill's Joe Uchill...

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/18/notorious-hacker-reveals-top-dnc-donor-info-political-strategy.html
 
DNC Hacker Unmasked: He Works for Russia

The hacker who claims to have stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee and provided them to WikiLeaks is actually an agent of the Russian government and part of an orchestrated attempt to influence U.S. media coverage surrounding the presidential election, a security research group concluded on Tuesday.

The researchers, at Arlington, Va.-based ThreatConnect, traced the self-described Romanian hacker Guccifer 2.0 back to an Internet server in Russia and to a digital address that has been linked in the past to Russian online scams. Far from being a singly, sophisticated hacker, Guccifer 2.0 is more likely a collection of people from the propaganda arm of the Russian government meant to deflect attention away from Moscow as the force behind the DNC hacks and leaks of emails, the researchers found.

ThreatConnect is the first known group of experts to link the self-proclaimed hacker to a Russian operation, amidst an ongoing FBI investigation and a presidential campaign rocked by the release of DNC emails that have embarrassed senior party leaders and inflamed intraparty tensions turning the Democratic National Convention. The emails revealed that party insiders plotted ways to undermine Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid.

“These are bureaucrats, not sophisticated hackers,” Rich Barger, ThreatConnect’s chief intelligence officer, told The Daily Beast. In blog posts and in interviews with journalists, Barger said, Guccifer 2.0 has made inconsistent remarks and given a version of how he penetrated the DNC networks that technically don’t make sense. For instance, the hacker claims to have used a software flaw that didn’t exist until December 2015 in order to break into the DNC networks last summer.

In an interview with Motherboard in June, the hacker also refused to speak in Romanian, another indication that he wasn’t who he claimed to be.

ThreatConnect also found that Guccifer 2.0 was attempting to mask his true location, in Russia, by communicating through an Internet service based in France. Such masking is not uncommon in government-sponsored operations, nor is it particularly difficult to accomplish....

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dnc-hacker-unmasked-he-works-for-russia/ar-BBuU8MN
 
These hackers gotta get their priorities right. If I was that damn smart, I wouldn't be dicking around with Hillary's BS... I'd be hacking into Wall Street and Silicone Valley e-mails... and start trading options.

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Bye bye Romania, hello Caymen.
 
The PRIVACY DEBATE IS ON


JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT, set to star as Edward Snowden in a new biopic from director Oliver Stone, says it’s a good time to talk about what it means to live in a democracy. BY CONNIE GUGLIELMO
August 16, 2016



When director Oliver Stone called and asked him to play the lead in a movie about Edward Snowden, who exposed massive government surveillance programs, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was excited and nervous.

Not because he was playing a man some have called a hero and others have labeled a traitor. He admits he didn’t really understand the controversy surrounding Snowden.

“I was just flattered and honored because I grew up loving Oliver Stone movies,” says Gordon-Levitt, a boyish-looking 35-year-old who asks everyone to call him “Joe.” “But then I was like, ‘Man you know, the truth is I don’t really know that much about Edward Snowden...’ I looked into it, and one of the first things I noticed is everyone tries to simplify it, but it’s not simple. It’s just not simple.”

That’s what Gordon-Levitt, who got his start as a teen on the TV comedy series “3rd Rock from the Sun,” wants people to take away from “Snowden,” due out in September. This isn’t a simple story about a guy wanting to right what he saw as a wrong. Instead, it’s about the debate every democracy should have about personal privacy and national security. Gordon-Levitt’s research inspired him to donate his salary from “Snowden” to the American Civil Liberties Union and to a video project — called “Are you there, Democracy? It’s me, the Internet,” — created by his online production company...

http://www.cnet.com/special-reports/joseph-gordon-levitt-the-privacy-debate-is-on/
 
Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for US intelligence
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Yahoo last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.

The company complied with a classified U.S. government directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said two former employees and a third person apprised of the events.

Some surveillance experts said this represents the first case to surface of a U.S. Internet company agreeing to a spy agency's demand by searching all arriving messages, as opposed to examining stored messages or scanning a small number of accounts in real time. It is not known what information intelligence officials were looking for, only that they wanted Yahoo to search for a set of characters.

That could mean a phrase in an email or an attachment, said the sources, who did not want to be identified....

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/04/yaho...tomer-emails-for-us-intelligence-reuters.html
 
How Russian Hackers Spiked the Currency Exchange Rate

Russian hackers found a way to dramatically alter a currency exchange rate—in just 14 minutes.

Launching a virus known as Corkow Trojan against Russia-based Energobank, a group of Russian hackers altered the value of the ruble against the dollar, Bloomberg is reporting, citing an interview with Group-IB, the company that investigated the attack. The virus, which hit Energobank in Feb. 2015, allowed the hackers to buy more than $500 million “at non-market rates,” according to the report. The move was enough for the ruble’s exchange rate to jump from 55 to 66 rubles per dollar before it settled back down.

Oddly, the hackers are not believed to have profited from the attack, ostensibly because they did not sell any of the currency as rates fluctuated. But Group-IB told Bloomberg that it may have been a proof-of-concept to prepare for another hack.

The attack was discovered by Russia’s central bank and the Moscow Exchange after analyzing the day’s currency trading. While the Moscow Exchange would only confirm that it wasn’t hacked, the central bank claims that it couldn’t find any evidence of market manipulation, according to Bloomberg. Instead, the central bank believes that the massive fluctuation was due to mistaken trades. Whatever the case, Group-IB is convinced that the hack was enough to affect the ruble-dollar exchange rate.

Indeed, the Group-IB, which investigates high-profile cybercrimes and cyber-theft, told Bloomberg that the Corkow Trojan is one of the more sophisticated tools hackers can use, and may even have the ability to attack machines that aren’t even connected to the Internet. In order to do so, the Trojan realizes that it’s on a local company network, and by worming its way through internal connections between those machines, can infect them through that connectivity. This allows the attacker to eventually gain access to the offline computers.

This isn’t the first time Russia-based hackers have been charged with malicious attacks. In December, for instance, Ukraine accused Russia of hacking into its power companies and ultimately taking down a power grid, a claim that Russia denies. Russian hackers were also cited for allegedly hacking the White House and State Department in 2014, giving them access to the President’s schedule, unclassified e-mails, and other data...

http://fortune.com/2016/02/08/russian-hackers-currency-rate/
 
NSA Contractor Arrested on Charge He Stole Classified U.S. Data
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October 5, 2016 — 12:30 PM CDT Updated on October 5, 2016 — 1:21 PM CDT
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A U.S. contractor has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly stealing classified government documents that could cause "exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States" if disseminated, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday by the Justice Department.

The contractor, Harold Martin of Glen Burnie, Maryland, worked for the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. and was assigned to the National Security Agency, according to a person familiar with the matter who wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly. The company also had employed Edward Snowden, who took and released thousands of classified files from the NSA in 2013.

Booz Allen fell 5.5 percent, the most since Jan. 27, to $29.77.

"When Booz Allen learned of the arrest of one of its employees by the FBI, we immediately reached out to the authorities to offer our total cooperation in their investigation, and we fired the employee," the company said in a statement without identifying Martin. "There have been no material changes to our client engagements as a result of this matter."

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The investigation into Martin occurred around the same time that sophisticated hacking tools apparently used by the NSA were leaked online...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...d-on-charge-he-stole-classified-u-s-documents
 
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